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Subject: Re: about special characters
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Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> writes:

> On Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:52 am, Ben Finney wrote:
>
> > (There has never been a Python 27. I assume Python 2.7 is what you
> > meant.)
>
> I believe that Python X.Y shows up as "PythonXY" under Windows.

Then that's a bug which should be fixed, IMO. An MS Windows user (i.e.,
not me) would be well placed to describe the behaviour in a bug report.

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